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jiouo9;8080-0;-p Volume 111, Issue 9 October 29, 1985 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Little good is accomplished without controversy, ,iw> Civil evil is ever defeated without publicity Student government may face financial crisis by carmen zayas Due io a shortage of funds and trouble with administrative paperwork, the CSUN government will begin to take money out of certain of its departments and may even close down some departments, according to a report given by Nancy Clark to the CSUN senate last Thursday, October 24. Clark, who is CSUN's business manager has'been warning or a pending budget deficit for the majority of the semester. At the last meeting of the 15th session of the senate, Clark said that both herself and Appropriations Board Chair Andy Nichols, would review all the departmental budgets this weekend and make a recommendation to the Executive Board on Monday. Said Clark, "We will tell ite^v<*cuo'\c Board what .duetts could stand to have money taken away from them, and what budgets should not be touched." In an interview directly after her report, Clark said, "Right now the budgets that will probably have money taken out of them, will be the Organizations Board and Nevada -Student Affairs (NSA)." According to Clark, "We will be looking to see what departments within CSUN provide the greatest good to I he students, or are giving the students the most for their money. "Right now, KUNV, The Yellin' Rebel and Intramurals will receive first priority whenever additional funds are made available." In her report Clark said that both Intramurals and The Yellin' Rebel are in the black, but KUNV is SlO.OOO in the red. At the senate meeting, Nichols projected that if the money situation continues the way it is, that all stipends will be suspended for the month of December. The two main problems encountered by CSUN are the spending habits of the student senate and the encumbering policies of the administration. Even after Clark wnrned of budget defi|jtsi the CSUN senate, in its October 10 meeting, funded two projects for a combined total of 52.500. At the beginning of that meeting, the senate as an emergency item, voted unanimously to .give jhc Rebel Cheerleaders $500. Halfway through the meeting, the senators voted on senate bill 15-12. The bill among other things, called for a ceiling to be placed on the amount of money each organization could receive from the senate. $400 was set as the limit. The bill passed with 13 for, 3 against and I abstaining. Immediately after that vote, the senators considered a proposal to fund The Connection, a tabloid formerly known as the Greek Connection that comes out approximately 3-4 times a semester, for $1000 a semester. That motion passed with 13 in favor, 2 opposed and 2 abstaining. According to one CSUN official who refused to be identified, "CSUN's main problem is that they spend the students' money on services thai benefit only a small portion of the student body. They also have a tendency to duplicate services already being offered." One of the main reasons for CSUN's lack of funds is caused by something that is out of their hands. Policies set by the Finance department of the University call for amounts of money to be encumbered in order to ensure that when bills come in, the necessary money will be available. According io Clark all salaries for all nonprofessional staff members are encumbered at Ihe beginning of the year. What this means is thai if a CSUN secretary maki" SlO/000 n year, the controller's office will encumber $10,000 of CSUN's operating budget at the beginning of the year. When an amount is encumbered, that money is still ■ left within the respective department's budget, but <1 cannot be touched. this creates a cashflow problem for CSUN because amounts are being encumbered in yearly sums when CSUN receives its ' students fees on a semester basis. Thai is, they receive half their student fees at the beginning of the Fall semester and the other half at the beginning of the Spring semester. Said Clark, f»e could get the adm siration to unencumber ! le ol our money they ha tied up. we would not hi so many problems. "For examp Kl/NVuses about $800 wo of power a month. If ths noney was paid monthly s would have no problems. stead, they encumbered $8 a month for the whole year Another exai lc isthe new machines The /;;i Kebe/is expecting. A lough the machines will np be delivered for several mil is, and the payments will similar to the ones ong their old machines, the <JRt roller's office has cncumttred money from their budgcApiwerthe monthly pay men (■or i lie entire next semester! Hoping to solvflthis problem, Senate president Varona scheduled 1 meeting with v'««'fpMcnt of \a-'c»tfall. <*5 jSEsm9s\. Although Varon.i dW*|| West Tall could not oi woW*-' not help the student go*efip>;.;> ment by allowing certa|fK|; monies to be unencumbered]®' CSUN President Kelleherffc said he would look into the '|a matter. 1 University President, Dr. \ Robert Maxson, said. "I I want to.help out CSUN any j-3 way I can, but all operating . ' policies fall under the jurisdiction of Vice-President "■ Westfall. And in the Final analysis,we must look to him for a recommendation " President Kelleher said that ij "Our problem lies' with the ] policy of encumberance." WHERE'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN7-A future UNLV student waits eagerly for the great pumpkin. Although few UNLV students wait around looking for the great pumpkin, the °,L Yellin Rtbelswearstheysaw it last Monday at 3 a.m. as they laid out the paper...Anyway, Happy Halloween. Name calling marks Queen's election by trina silvey c In this year's Homecoming i: Queen elections, more than 800 students voted, unfor- 5 tunately the elections were c marred by so many violations t of the rules and illegal cam- i paigning tactics that Elections < Board Chairman Robert | Ashley called it, "The I nastiest thing I've seen." Karen Hare, sponsored by Delta Zeta, won the Homecoming Queen title, but not before breaking enough campaign rules to cause the Elections Board to fine her $23. Ann Potanza, Tau Kappa Epsilon's candidate, was first runner-up and came within eight votes of being elected queen. But, it was a hollow victory. Because of repeated campaign violations Potenza not only lost her original 123 filing fee, she also had to post an extra 525. According to Ashley, Potenza came close to being disqualified. Janu Toritcll, sponsored by the Hispanic Association, was second runner-up and fwl 16 votes short of Hare. She was the only candidate to incur no violations. According to Tornell the elections were sick. "I was glad because I felt that 1 had represented my y organization well, and that is what I started out to do. But, i it was so petty at times. "I put up my posters on Sunday night only to find all of them gone by Monday morning. I even saw a Sigma Alpha Episilon pledge tearing down my posters in order to put up a poster for Karen Hare. "Somebody even took my posters down and put them back up in illegal places, so that I would get a violation. Fortunately, Robert Ashley had seen where I had originally put my posters up." Steffanie Pettit, Kappa Sigma's candidate came in fourth. She had several violations against her. Each candidate was required to pay a $23 filing fee to CSUN with the understanding that a portion or all of this fee could be kept by CSUN if a candidate was cited and deemed in violation of Homecoming election rules. "Many candidates didn't bother to read what they were signing," said Robert Ashley, adding. "Some candidates left their packets behind or threw them in the trash on their way out." • Candace Koontz and Judy Malony borh only received one violation. "In these cases," said Ashley, "the NMHMEMMMMIMBMfeIMI violation will be probably dropped." Maria DeSouza, and Melissa Decker all were cited for less than five violations. Kechi McKinney received less than ten violations. The other three candidates, Karen Hare, Steffanie Pettit, and Ann Potenza lost their whole fees because of numerous violations. After a fine, and further threats of disqualification of their candidate, TKE, according to Ashley, became the model supporters. "I have no biases against the Tekes," said Ashley, "just the tactics they were using." Many of the campaign rules which were violated included posting in unauthorized areas, posting over other candidates campaign materials, stapling campaign materials to the walls, and writing offensive remarks on other candidates campaign posters. One rule excludes campaigning or campaign materials within 25 feet of the voting box during the election. This rule, like the others, was not abided by candidate's supporters. According to Ashley, "It was not the girls themselves, but their overzealous workers doing this." The supporters I of Hare and Pettit Were a big problem here said Ashley- One of the items in the agreement the candidates signed stated "Candidates will be held accountable for their own actions and those of their recognized ' .Jm- supporters." "I wouldn't want to make the girls suffer, but they don't take me seriously. We have the power to disqualify them. It only takes a board membership vote," said Ashley. Harmon Ave. scheduled to close by carmciiayas blem, why not install speed bumps? Until it was recently paved, students essentially had to go slow because of all the bumps and dents on Harmon. "I do not particularly like the idea of speed bumps, but if it is between bumps or closing the street down, I would rather have the bumps." Hendrick alio said that even if only 25 percent of the users are students, that is still a lot of students who do benefit from the usage of Gym Road. "There are students who have their first class in the Humanities Building and their second class in the P.E. Complex. Is it fair to make them walk all that way just so that we can keep nonstudents from driving through the University?" As part of the committee's proposal, if Gym Road is closed, in exchange, the committee hat asked that part of the unpaved lot ajacent to the only # percent of the total traffic through that part of the university were students. Another factor was the concern for the safety of students. According to one committee member, students use that path (University to Gym tgHarmon) late at night to campus and CbqStfttee members were worriidHjhat students could encoutMfc trouble. Thriijll also the problem of drfWM going over the 25 mph fted limit. With studeflljrpting Gym Road to get to (Niks, the committee felt tlMOTrivers speeding by could jfesent a potential Ontffipne committee meinVKirk Hendrick, voted aHnst the recommen- to HendrickjHough the speeding issue that needs to be there is another problem. it the pro■HiiHllMHMMMlaLess than a iponih after Harmon Avenue was finally paved, UNLV administrate may close the" sir«t to through traffic. At their last meeting. ,he Parking and Traffic Committee recommended that the road that connects Harmon Avenue and Inivtrsitv Renamed Gym Road be closed off. the proposal passes, Harmon Avenue>ould deadend at the Mu«UITI 0 Natural History and Pick up again in from of Rrazicr Hall- University Road would deadend on one side Thomas and Mack •?t and pick up oh the other side of Maryland' Barkway- The Commute# hjS icen toying with the ide« ofcl°sing Gym Road for®n,osi »*° years. One Cf the 'l'asons cued for the include the fact) that Jrecenl survey conduae4. found that Committee seeks to stop use of newly paved road Thomas and Mack be paved and made into a student parking area. Hendrick still said he believed that it would not be in the best interest of the students to close down Gym Road. "There are so many students that use this road to get through campus, to classes, to parking spaces, etc. It would not be fair to deny them access." Several students contacted said that they did not think that the road should be dosed. One of the reasons cited was, "If they just paved Harmon they should at least keep it open so that we could use it." Other reasons included, "We need that road to cut through campus, during peak hours it would a total meti if we did not have another exit," and "That's stupid, I can understand why they would consider it, a lot of Depoje aren't students but I still do not feel it should be doted." Homecoming ready Zionists display I Parking committee made scrapbook H lovveen theme I needs perspective page 4 page 8 Ik. • . _ n&mms,,.

jiouo9;8080-0;-p Volume 111, Issue 9 October 29, 1985 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Little good is accomplished without controversy, ,iw> Civil evil is ever defeated without publicity Student government may face financial crisis by carmen zayas Due io a shortage of funds and trouble with administrative paperwork, the CSUN government will begin to take money out of certain of its departments and may even close down some departments, according to a report given by Nancy Clark to the CSUN senate last Thursday, October 24. Clark, who is CSUN's business manager has'been warning or a pending budget deficit for the majority of the semester. At the last meeting of the 15th session of the senate, Clark said that both herself and Appropriations Board Chair Andy Nichols, would review all the departmental budgets this weekend and make a recommendation to the Executive Board on Monday. Said Clark, "We will tell ite^v;.;> ment by allowing certa|fK|; monies to be unencumbered]®' CSUN President Kelleherffc said he would look into the '|a matter. 1 University President, Dr. \ Robert Maxson, said. "I I want to.help out CSUN any j-3 way I can, but all operating . ' policies fall under the jurisdiction of Vice-President "■ Westfall. And in the Final analysis,we must look to him for a recommendation " President Kelleher said that ij "Our problem lies' with the ] policy of encumberance." WHERE'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN7-A future UNLV student waits eagerly for the great pumpkin. Although few UNLV students wait around looking for the great pumpkin, the °,L Yellin Rtbelswearstheysaw it last Monday at 3 a.m. as they laid out the paper...Anyway, Happy Halloween. Name calling marks Queen's election by trina silvey c In this year's Homecoming i: Queen elections, more than 800 students voted, unfor- 5 tunately the elections were c marred by so many violations t of the rules and illegal cam- i paigning tactics that Elections < Board Chairman Robert | Ashley called it, "The I nastiest thing I've seen." Karen Hare, sponsored by Delta Zeta, won the Homecoming Queen title, but not before breaking enough campaign rules to cause the Elections Board to fine her $23. Ann Potanza, Tau Kappa Epsilon's candidate, was first runner-up and came within eight votes of being elected queen. But, it was a hollow victory. Because of repeated campaign violations Potenza not only lost her original 123 filing fee, she also had to post an extra 525. According to Ashley, Potenza came close to being disqualified. Janu Toritcll, sponsored by the Hispanic Association, was second runner-up and fwl 16 votes short of Hare. She was the only candidate to incur no violations. According to Tornell the elections were sick. "I was glad because I felt that 1 had represented my y organization well, and that is what I started out to do. But, i it was so petty at times. "I put up my posters on Sunday night only to find all of them gone by Monday morning. I even saw a Sigma Alpha Episilon pledge tearing down my posters in order to put up a poster for Karen Hare. "Somebody even took my posters down and put them back up in illegal places, so that I would get a violation. Fortunately, Robert Ashley had seen where I had originally put my posters up." Steffanie Pettit, Kappa Sigma's candidate came in fourth. She had several violations against her. Each candidate was required to pay a $23 filing fee to CSUN with the understanding that a portion or all of this fee could be kept by CSUN if a candidate was cited and deemed in violation of Homecoming election rules. "Many candidates didn't bother to read what they were signing," said Robert Ashley, adding. "Some candidates left their packets behind or threw them in the trash on their way out." • Candace Koontz and Judy Malony borh only received one violation. "In these cases," said Ashley, "the NMHMEMMMMIMBMfeIMI violation will be probably dropped." Maria DeSouza, and Melissa Decker all were cited for less than five violations. Kechi McKinney received less than ten violations. The other three candidates, Karen Hare, Steffanie Pettit, and Ann Potenza lost their whole fees because of numerous violations. After a fine, and further threats of disqualification of their candidate, TKE, according to Ashley, became the model supporters. "I have no biases against the Tekes," said Ashley, "just the tactics they were using." Many of the campaign rules which were violated included posting in unauthorized areas, posting over other candidates campaign materials, stapling campaign materials to the walls, and writing offensive remarks on other candidates campaign posters. One rule excludes campaigning or campaign materials within 25 feet of the voting box during the election. This rule, like the others, was not abided by candidate's supporters. According to Ashley, "It was not the girls themselves, but their overzealous workers doing this." The supporters I of Hare and Pettit Were a big problem here said Ashley- One of the items in the agreement the candidates signed stated "Candidates will be held accountable for their own actions and those of their recognized ' .Jm- supporters." "I wouldn't want to make the girls suffer, but they don't take me seriously. We have the power to disqualify them. It only takes a board membership vote," said Ashley. Harmon Ave. scheduled to close by carmciiayas blem, why not install speed bumps? Until it was recently paved, students essentially had to go slow because of all the bumps and dents on Harmon. "I do not particularly like the idea of speed bumps, but if it is between bumps or closing the street down, I would rather have the bumps." Hendrick alio said that even if only 25 percent of the users are students, that is still a lot of students who do benefit from the usage of Gym Road. "There are students who have their first class in the Humanities Building and their second class in the P.E. Complex. Is it fair to make them walk all that way just so that we can keep nonstudents from driving through the University?" As part of the committee's proposal, if Gym Road is closed, in exchange, the committee hat asked that part of the unpaved lot ajacent to the only # percent of the total traffic through that part of the university were students. Another factor was the concern for the safety of students. According to one committee member, students use that path (University to Gym tgHarmon) late at night to campus and CbqStfttee members were worriidHjhat students could encoutMfc trouble. Thriijll also the problem of drfWM going over the 25 mph fted limit. With studeflljrpting Gym Road to get to (Niks, the committee felt tlMOTrivers speeding by could jfesent a potential Ontffipne committee meinVKirk Hendrick, voted aHnst the recommen- to HendrickjHough the speeding issue that needs to be there is another problem. it the pro■HiiHllMHMMMlaLess than a iponih after Harmon Avenue was finally paved, UNLV administrate may close the" sir«t to through traffic. At their last meeting. ,he Parking and Traffic Committee recommended that the road that connects Harmon Avenue and Inivtrsitv Renamed Gym Road be closed off. the proposal passes, Harmon Avenue>ould deadend at the Mu«UITI 0 Natural History and Pick up again in from of Rrazicr Hall- University Road would deadend on one side Thomas and Mack •?t and pick up oh the other side of Maryland' Barkway- The Commute# hjS icen toying with the ide« ofcl°sing Gym Road for®n,osi »*° years. One Cf the 'l'asons cued for the include the fact) that Jrecenl survey conduae4. found that Committee seeks to stop use of newly paved road Thomas and Mack be paved and made into a student parking area. Hendrick still said he believed that it would not be in the best interest of the students to close down Gym Road. "There are so many students that use this road to get through campus, to classes, to parking spaces, etc. It would not be fair to deny them access." Several students contacted said that they did not think that the road should be dosed. One of the reasons cited was, "If they just paved Harmon they should at least keep it open so that we could use it." Other reasons included, "We need that road to cut through campus, during peak hours it would a total meti if we did not have another exit," and "That's stupid, I can understand why they would consider it, a lot of Depoje aren't students but I still do not feel it should be doted." Homecoming ready Zionists display I Parking committee made scrapbook H lovveen theme I needs perspective page 4 page 8 Ik. • . _ n&mms,,.